Panthers sign Colin Granger, ex-college basketball center, in attempt to make him tight end

The Carolina Panthers volition person a amusive grooming campy task aft their latest announcement connected Monday. 

Colin Granger, a erstwhile Division 1 hoops subordinate for Ohio University, Western Carolina and Coastal Carolina, is going to effort to person to an NFL choky end. 

The 6-foot-8, 245-pound Granger was announced arsenic a signee for the Panthers arsenic helium is 5 years removed from precocious schoolhouse and is allowed to articulation a squad arsenic a escaped agent. 

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Notre Dame defender Braeden Shrewsberry (11) drives to the handbasket arsenic Western Carolina guardant Colin Granger (32) defends during the Western Carolina-Notre Dame NCAA Men’s hoops crippled connected Saturday, November 11, 2023, astatine Purcell Pavilion successful South Bend, Indiana. (IMAGN)

Granger was a halfway during his assemblage career, playing 2 seasons astatine Ohio University, 2 seasons astatine Western Carolina and finishing disconnected astatine Coastal Carolina. 

He was a 52.3% shooter from the tract during his career, portion hauling successful 322 full rebounds with the 3 antithetic programs. He had 137 rebounds astatine Coastal Carolina to headdress an awesome career. 

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Now, Panthers brass has past with converting erstwhile hoops players into NFL-caliber pieces, arsenic caput manager Dave Canales and wide manager Dan Morgan did truthful with George Fant with the Seattle Seahawks.

Fant, who stands astatine 6-foot-5, 315 pounds, played hoops astatine Western Kentucky, and helium was converted into a hybrid violative tackle and choky end. He ended up playing 7 full seasons with Seattle, the New York Jets and Houston Texans. 

Notre Dame defender Julian Roper II (1) shoots the shot arsenic Western Carolina guardant Colin Granger (32) defends during the Western Carolina-Notre Dame NCAA Men’s hoops crippled connected Saturday, November 11, 2023, astatine Purcell Pavilion successful South Bend, Indiana. (IMAGN)

ESPN reports that Fant has been moving with Granger to get him acceptable for the transition, and helium was the 1 who told the Panthers astir his potential. 

Granger, though, hasn’t been connected a shot tract since eighth grade, truthful the modulation isn’t expected to beryllium an casual one. 

But, of course, this isn’t new, particularly astatine the choky extremity position. Think Antonio Gates, Jimmy Graham and the large Tony Gonzalez, who were each erstwhile hoops players earlier seeing tons of occurrence successful the NFL. 

Colin Granger #32 of the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers dunks against the North Carolina State Wolfpack during the crippled astatine Lenovo Center connected November 13, 2024 successful Raleigh, North Carolina.  (Grant Halverson/Getty Images)

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Granger volition beryllium competing with a slew of choky ends successful Panthers grooming campy this summer, including Tommy Tremble and Ja’Tavion Sanders.

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